The Creevey Papers
Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, 21 August 1822
“Lancaster, 21st August.
“. . . I dined the day before yesterday at old
Bolton’s circuit dinner, and
found Canning there. I had a good deal
of talk with him about Castlereagh, and he
spoke very properly. Neither of us canted about the matter; but he shewed the
right degree of feeling. I don’t think he is going to be sent for, and am
pretty sure he will go to India. If they are kind enough to do so excellent a
thing as try it with the low, miserable Spinning
Jenny,* thank God for it!
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Only lose no time in reminding
Barnes, as from yourself, of the magazine of ammunition
for attacking him the moment the arrangement is made—I mean, in the
debates of 1819, when I laid it into him in a merciless manner. It is pretty
correctly given, and is a fund of attack; the rather that the fellow was caught
in the fact of the very lowest trick ever man attempted. It was like having his
hand seized while picking a pocket.
“Yours ever,
“H. B.”
John Bolton (1756-1837)
Of Storrs Hall, Windermere; originally a Liverpool slave-trader, he was a West-India
merchant, philanthropist and friend of George Canning.
George Canning (1770-1827)
Tory statesman; he was foreign minister (1807-1809) and prime minister (1827); a
supporter of Greek independence and Catholic emancipation.
